❝ I need to reschedule my facial, I’ve accidentally booked it for the same time as my helicopter ride.”

The man standing next to me, dressed in an immaculate white bathrobe identical to mine, is going through a list of different treatments with Antje Lode, the spa manager at 7132 Hotel, an alpine wellness retreat in the hamlet of Vals, among the Grisons mountains in Switzerland. It takes him some time, there’s a lot to choose from. The helicopter ride he’s presumably referring to is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, a flight with 7132’s chief pilot to a two-Michelin-starred, eight-course dinner served atop a remote glacier, Cristal in hand. FIFO life never sounded so good.